Excerpt from A Home Offering: Consider the Lilies and Other Poems Bides the morrow without doubting the great Giver of to-day. Only mankind, sinful mankind, out of all creation can find Time for murmuring, and complaining, doubting, fearing, sighs and tears He is toiling, daily toiling, while his heart is daily spoiling All the joy and good Of living with his never-ending fears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.